Wednesday, April 19, 2006

What Honest Liberals Say About Roe v. Wade

Quite apart from the evil that resulted from the Roe v. Wade decision, it was a legal monstrosity. It was simply made up. Trying to follow the "reasoning" in the case leads to the infamous emanations of a penumbra. (It came out of the shadows...) Many liberal legal scholars have admitted that on the merits, Roe was wrongly decided.

“Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court. … Heavy-handed judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.”

Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore “represent opposite sides of the same currency of judicial activism in areas more appropriately left to the political processes…. Judges have no special competence, qualifications, or mandate to decide between equally compelling moral claims (as in the abortion controversy)…. [C]lear governing constitutional principles … are not present in either case.”